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Book release party for Alejandro Murguía's new book, The Other Barrio: New and Collected Stories. Opening the festivities, will be invited guest poet María Esquínca, reading from her 2024 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize Winning collection of poems, Where Heaven Sinks. 

Alejandro Murguía, the San Francisco Poet Laureate from 2013-2017, is the author of a poetry collection, Stray Poems (City Lights Books, 2014); two story collections, Southern Front (Bilingual Review/Press, 1990) and This War Called Love (City Lights Books, 2002), both winners of the American Book Award; and a non-fiction book, The Medicine of Memory (University of Texas Press, 2002). He is the co-editor of Volcán: Poetry from Central America (City Lights Books, 2001). The founder of The Roque Dalton Cultural Brigade, he is a founding member and the first director of The Mission Cultural Center. He is a professor emeritus in Latina/Latino Studies at San Francisco State University.

Connect: Alejandro Murguía - Website

María Esquínca is a Xicana fronteriza and an abolitionist. She was born in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, and grew up in El Paso, Texas. She received her MFA from the University of Miami. Her poetry has appeared in Waxwing, Michigan Quarterly Review, South Carolina Review, Best New Poets, and more.

Connect: María Esquínca - Website